Pinball Storm: Lokanta

its like all of the bad parts of hades except not in a fun way

もっさりしていてテンポの悪いヴァンサバ亜種 育成要素やストーリーがあったりする キャラが育ってきたら爽快なのかもしれないけど最初は無双できず単調でつまらないステージが続く（しかも無駄に長い ヴァンサバライクの良さを完全に読み違えたゲーム セールで２００円とかなんでそこまで不満はないけど即アンインストール

I wanted to like this game. It has a good idea at it's core: bullet heaven where your bullets are limited but where procs are how you do better. Sadly, there are just too many issues for me to recommend. The English translation is not good, which annoys me because from what I have seen, there is enough raw material to tell an interesting story with interesting characters... It's just completely ruined by the translation. The game feels under-tuned. Many encounters feel either way too easy or way too difficult. Unfortunately, it rarely feels like you're in between those extremes. You mainly will be fighting for your life or so overpowered you don't feel any pressure with very little time in the middle. The game is a bit slow. Your movement speed is slow, your reload speed is slow, enemies move slowly. It's slow and plodding and the level timers feel too long. I understand that the slower pace can be intentional but it feels like it harms the game more than it helps it. There are many bugs. I had to give up on using a controller because I couldn't navigate to the "Start" stage button from the map with the controller. I got the "complete level 50 of Endless Mode" achievement at level 47. The upgrades feel kind of underpowered and are confusing. In this, the upgrades are unlocked by getting the first upgrade by a specific character. Sadly, some characters feel like they are bugged. One character increases your damage based on move speed but doesn't do much to increase it. One character's upgrade cause you to lose points in the form of gold coins when colliding with a pinball... But that doesn't really seem to have an upside. There's stuff worth playing for, though. some of the upgrade characters are pretty cool and feel genuinely helpful. Once you get certain upgrades, you can shoot a LOT of pinballs that multiply, which feels really nice. The Gacha item system is cool, even though the backpack only holds 3 items regardless of their size, without duplicates allowed, when the backpack looks like it should be packed more, since Gacha items have physics. This is a 4/10. It's not awful but it falls short of being good. It's a bit infuriating how close it is to being great... But you can't win a Nobel prize for attempted chemistry no matter how cool your idea is.